Twitter ‘The Half-Life Of Facts’
Samuel Arbesman. (Courtesy of Mark McDonald)
This story originally aired on October 17, 2012.
Samuel Arbesman has a small goal. He wants to upend just about everything we think we know about the nature of facts.
In his new book, “The Half-Life Of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has An Expiration Date,” he argues that there is an actual pattern — a predictable rhythm — to how facts change.
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- Samuel Arbesman, senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation and fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University; author of “The Half-Life Of Facts“
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